3 papers
cs.CL2026
D2: High-Capability Full-Duplex Spoken Language Models from Half-Duplex Backbones
Cheng-Kuang Chang, Alexander H. Liu, Brian Kingsbury +5
Full-duplex spoken language models (FD-SLMs) support simultaneous listening and speaking, but often lag behind half-duplex spoken language models (HD-SLMs) in general capabilities.…
cs.CV2026
AVRT: Audio-Visual Reasoning Transfer through Single-Modality Teachers
Edson Araujo, Saurabhchand Bhati, M. Jehanzeb Mirza +5
Recent advances in reasoning models have shown remarkable progress in text-based domains, but transferring those capabilities to multimodal settings, e.g., to allow reasoning over…
eess.AS2025
Towards Audio Token Compression in Large Audio Language Models
Saurabhchand Bhati, Samuel Thomas, Hilde Kuehne +2
Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) deliver strong performance across speech and audio tasks, but their audio encoders generate high-rate token sequences (e.g., 25 tokens/s), makin…